Archie Bland* – The Guardian Exclusive: Kyaw Zwar Minn says he feels unsafe at London residence and family at home fear reprisals Myanmar’s ousted ambassador to the UK has said that friends and relatives at home have been forced into hiding after the country’s military regime…
By Matthew Karnitschnig* – POLITICO. A mustachioed Turk, two gilded high-back chairs and a plush sofa.
Paul* NEW YORK, Apr 12 2021 (IPS) – Commentators talk about a “new Cold War” between the United States and China. They sometimes conclude that the geopolitical rivalry between these two major powers has ruined the effectiveness of the UN Security Council through hostile vetoes…
By Rafiqul Islam Cox’s Bazar Rohingya Refugee Camp had one of highest rates of primary and secondary age children out of school. Education Cannot Wait (ECW), the multilateral global fund dedicated to education in emergencies and protracted crises, immediately allocated millions…
By Karla Loya-Stack* – The Washington Post I have struggled with how to describe or define my identity since moving to the United States from Mexico at age 10—a struggle that was internalized and personal for years. After migrating to the U.S. with my family in…
By Vijay Prashad* – Globetrotter, Independent Media Institute On March 11, Ukraine’s Foreign Minister Dmytro Kuleba wrote on Twitter that his government has “approved the Strategy for Deoccupation & Reintegration of Crimea.” What he referred to is a new…
Timothy Garton Ash* – The Guardian A planned ‘coronavirus tax’ on revenues and attacks on foreign-owned media threaten to cut away democracy piece by piece Democracy dies in darkness. One of the European Union’s most fragile democracies, Poland, now faces the spectre of the…
By Ramesh Thakur* – The Strategist, Australia This is not an article I had expected, intended or wanted to write. I have politely declined requests to write on the Responsibility to Protect (R2P) in relation to the current crisis in Myanmar and the climbing…
By Agora of the Inhabitants of the Earth David Maria SASSOLI President@ep.europa.eu david.sassoli@ep.europa.eu and to the Presidents of the Parliamentary Groups of the EP Manfred WEBER Président, EPP Manfred.weber@ep.europa.eu Iratxe GARCÍA PÉREZ Présidene, PA S&D Président…
By Mark Berman* – The Washington Post The footage has played multiple times inside the downtown Minneapolis courtroom where Derek Chauvin is on trial for murder, showing George Floyd, a Black man, gasping for air under the White police officer’s knee…
